June!

Dear parents,

The FDK team has sent out a June newsletter. Here are some things we talked about in the newsletter:

Author’s Day

Author’s Day is on June 12. Parents are welcome to attend. Each child will be reading something they wrote. It will begin at 1:00 pm, with an open house afterwards from 2:10 pm until 3:00 pm.

Book Bag Program

Book Bag program is finished for the year. Please return any books that you may have at home as soon as possible.

Year-End Party

To thank our parents for their continued support throughout the year, we will be having a Year-End Party! It will happen on Tuesday, June 23 beginning at 1:00 pm. All parents please join us if you can!

There will be water play, snacks, bingo, games and prizes.

Word of the Week

Last week's word was:

they. They are my friends. 

This week's word is:

then. First I went to the store. Then I went to the park. 

This week your child will get a list of the words we have done this year. Please practice with them over the summer! You can play Go Fish (make 2 sets of the words and play!), choose 2 words to work on a week and play tic tac toe (ie. one person gets to be the word the the other person gets to be the word are. The first person to get 3 in a row for their word wins. Change the word every week!), draw a picture and write a sentence with the word, scramble letters and make the word. Every time you see the word when you are reading, grocery shopping or taking a walk point it out. 

More Animals! : The Circle of Life

Last week was also a special week. We have been learning about animals from the farm but we also got to see baby chicks hatch AND butterflies being set free. 

Baby chicks from Ms. Tobias' class. They use their egg tooth to help them get out. They are fluffy now because they are dry. 

This is the case that Mr. Leung's class had their caterpillars in. At the top where the paper towel is you can see all the chrysalis that are hanging, getting ready to become butterflies. 

Mystery Reader

Last week we also had a mystery reader visit us. Knock Knock.....it was Aker's mom, Ms. Lubin! She read a great book about keeping our hands to ourselves and using our words. We had a lot of fun listening to her read.

Community Helpers in the School

Last week we also got to talk to a community helper in our school: Ms. Connie! She is our caretaker at the school and she does A LOT for us. She fixes things in our class (like our curtain), makes sure we have enough toilet paper, cleans our floors, sets up the lunch room, cuts the grass and so much more. We found out how amazing the caretaker is at our school!

Author's Day

Our kiddos have been super busy writing their Author's Day books. Senior Kindergarteners and a few Junior Kindergarteners wrote a version of The Book that Jack Wrote. This is a book we have read in class a few times. We even wrote one as a class on the SmartBoard! 

We talked about different characters we could use and different actions they could use. 

Junior Kindergarteners wrote a short story or sentence for a picture they drew. It could be about whatever they wanted it to be. Most used a character we brainstormed on the carpet together. Some made their own!

Don't forget to join us this Friday June 12 for Author's Day and Open House afterwards. 

Building Building Building

Here in Room 104 we love to build. We have the most imaginative students out there. We are getting so good at building things now and using our imagination. 

Look at some of the things we build.

This Week in 104

Hi everyone!

This week in Room 104 we started learning about Community Helpers.

Who are they? Community Helpers are people that work in our community. They help us in different ways. Some of the people we thought of are:
*Teachers
*Principal
*Cashier
*Veterinarian
*EMS worker
*Policeman
*Secretary
*Firefighter
*Garbage collector
*Doctor


In math we have been solving problems like this:
There are 10 flowers in the garden. 6 flowers are blue. The rest are yellow. How many flowers are yellow?
First we draw 10 flowers. Then we colour 6 blue. Then we count how many flowers are yellow.

There are 4 yellow flowers. 

This week's word of the week is: there. Please put your shoes over there. 



Yesterday we had our Mystery Reader: Mr. Mark! Lauren's dad was here to read a Robert Munsch book.

Please note:
All students who are bringing a reading folder home. We will be collecting folders and books starting Monday June 1. Thanks so much for your cooperation!

Week of May 11 and May 19

Hello friends and family!

Last week we finished up learning about farms and farm animals. We had a blast at the farm the week before and learned a lot about different kinds of animals.

Ask your child about which one was their favourite! We learned about: pigs, goats, ponies, chickens, and sheep. Each student wrote about a farm animal of their choice.

We also focused on the word: that - That is my favourite book.

In school, we explored Canadian coins. Lots of our friends have been to the store with moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandmas and grandpas. Most of us have seen them before. We learned about what the value of each coin is, their names and what they look like. We even got to "buy" our own things in our class groups.

We have also been learning position words. That means words that tell us where something or someone is.

Monday - we learned:

The green cube is on top. The yellow cube is in the middle and the blue cube is on the bottom.

Tuesday - we learned:  on, inside and outside

The rooster is on top. The horses are inside and the trees are outside of the barn. 

Wednesday - we learned: over, under, through and around

We went on a Shark hunt. We were stopped at this big gate (there were other things we had to get through before finding our shark). We couldn't go OVER the gate, we couldn't go UNDER the gate, we couldn't go AROUND the gate. We had to go THROUGH the gate. 

Thursday - we learned: behind, in front, beside

On Friday we had our mystery reader!
Surprise! It was Maria's mom. She read us a great book on pumpkin planting and Maria even helped her read it too.

For the next few weeks we will be working on our Author's day book. We are reading GROWING books. Yesterday we read: Pizza Pat.

We are continuing to work on letter sounds, putting letter sounds together to make words, numbers, addition and subtraction. 

Forsythe Farms

We had a long and wonderful trip to Forsythe Farms on Wednesday, May 6.

We started our trip with a scenic drive to Uxbridge where the farm was located. When we got there, Farmer Susan greeted us with a big smile. Then we hopped onto the pumpkin tractor ride where we got a tour of the farm. We saw special fairy tale displays, fields where pumpkins, beans and corn grow, and the barn where the animals were kept. After that we learned about the hens that laid all the eggs that we buy in the store, and then got to feed goats, bunnies and sheep.

Finally...after lunch we planted strawberry plants! What trip is complete without some time at the park? We ran, slid and rode on some park equipment before journeying back to Roywood.

Our students brought the strawberry plants home for mother's day this Sunday. We hope all moms enjoyed their strawberry plants and special treat :)

Have a wonderful weekend, we hope you have a relaxing and loving weekend!